Some vegetables are easy to grow and maintain in the garden. I started a new garden this year without tilling or removing the sod. I just started right on the lawn. I first put cardboard boxes, newspapers, hay, and grass clipping on the lawn. After few weeks, the grass died down and the soil became soft and easy to plant.

Sunchokes

On Saturday 8-24-19, I transplanted sunchockes in the new garden on our second property. I removed them from some parts of my backyard. I made a garden bed on the South side inside the fence and transplanted them. I laid hay there in July and that killed grass there. I wanted to plant sunchokes outside of the garden fence but the ones that I planted there are being eaten by something. That was the reason I have to plant them inside the fence.

Egyptian Onion

I made another bed and lined it up with tree branches. I planted Egyptian onion bulbils. I put them on the grass and covered the bed with hay.

Beds that I covered with hay weeks prior, I moved the hay on the side put the onion bulbils down and moved the hay back on them.

Squash

I planted squash in a bed in July. They are growing well.

Horseradish

It started to grow. I have broken a root from my back yard and transplanted there. It stayed in the ground for few weeks. I even moved it from its original spot when I rearranged the bed length a week ago. It didn’t seem to survive the transplant. Nevertheless, I replanted it a foot from the original spot. A week later I saw a new leaf growing.

Rhubarb

The transplants are doing well. To plant them, I dug in the grass. The ground was hard. I put the rhubarb in the whole and put the grass back but upside down around the rhubarb plants. Then I heavily mulched the area with grass clipping. After few rains, the ground became soft under the mulch and the rhubarb took off.

Sorrel

After I fenced the garden, the leaves have not been munched on. I am not done installing the chicken wire to keep bunnies out.  The garden is about 2,000 square feet. I would save money to purchase more chicken wire and garden pins. In the meantime, I am moving in what bunnies generally don’t eat in my garden. The sorrel plant seems to be doing well. I scattered sorrel seeds in the new bed where I planted Egyptian onion.

Strawberry

I transplanted a strawberry plant to a bed with rhubarb in it.

Black walnut

I saw some walnuts in the garden and traced them to a tree at the edge of the property. Yes we have one or two walnut trees on the property. One is producing nuts already. I gathered a lot of nuts from the ground and filled half a grocery bag and took it home.